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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
Anytime the liberal media fears someone, they attack them, like calling the Tea Party racist, still no proof other than some people that were unwanted showing up with signs.
Conservative media is at least a little better.
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The liberals are not the only people afraid of the Tea Party or Sarah Palin. The Republicans are worried that the tea party will win enough seats to make their lives hell. If these Tea Party people stick to their word they won't vote for anything that will raise he deficit which will be pretty much anything that is put on the floor. Without their support the Republicans will get nothing passed, never mind having to fight the Democrats.
As for Sarah Palin, you can tell the Republicans fear her because they are changing the delegate rules for the primaries. The Republican primaries have always been winner take all. You win the state, you get all the delegates. They are changing that for at least the first handful of states so now you get a number of delegates in proportion to the number of votes you get. This is how the Democrats do it.
They are doing this because they are afraid that Palin will run and since a large number of the early primaries are in bible belt states she could win some states early on. These victories could force out more moderate candidates that might be able to win the more moderate states and win the general election. Think of Huckabee in the last election. He stuck around early and traded wins with McCain. Eventually they left the bible belt and McCain pulled away in the more progressive states. What they don't want is Palin to come out of the gate fast, win a bunch of states and kill off Romney or some other more moderate candidate then have her get thrashed in the general election. Right now she polls well, but right now she isn't running for office so she can say what she wants when she wants and control her image. If she gets back on the campaign trail it will remind much of the country how batshit crazy she really is.